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Hostility to Christianity

22 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In “Hostility to Christianity” (Chalcedon Report No. 155), Rushdoony argues that the drive to abolish Christianity did not begin with modern revol...

As a Man Thinketh

22 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Old frontier movies and revolutionary films of the 30s and 40s have been replaying for decades, and now their spirit shows up in the streets as shallo...

Responsibility

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Man often claims absolute independence, insisting he is accountable to no one but himself, yet such freedom is an illusion, for no one can secede from...

How to Produce a Hippie

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to produce a generation of hippies, the formula is simple: remove God, Scripture, and moral law from schools so children learn that faith ...

The Family as Trustee (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This message traces the modern war on the family to humanism’s twin goals: erasing God and dismantling the family as a governing institution. Drawin...

The Law of the Pack

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A worried mother went to meet her son’s teacher after receiving a note from the school, fearing her junior-high-aged Eddie already both mature and h...

Depending on Evil

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In “Depending on Evil” (Chalcedon Report No. 112), Rushdoony argues that modern states consistently trust and support evil regimes because corrupt...

Done Any Nagging Lately?

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This passage explores the origin and meaning of the word nag, tracing it from its Scandinavian roots meaning “to gnaw, bite, or burrow” to its mod...

Catharsis

19 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Catharsis is the belief that health personal or social comes through the uninhibited expression of inner impulses. Originating in Greek tragedy, it wa...

Train Up a Child

19 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When Ben-hadad besieged Samaria, his demand for Ahab’s gold and silver aimed to cripple Israel’s strength, and his demand for the king’s wives i...

The Significance of the Family as a Social Institution (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)

19 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This session confronts the social power of the biblical family and explains why it is relentlessly targeted by the modern state: under God, the family...

Who Owns the Child?

18 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A century ago, John Swett the architect of California’s public school system openly denied that parents had any rights in government education, insi...

What Can the Righteous Do?

17 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When the foundations seem destroyed and evil appears entrenched, Psalm 11 answers despair with faith: the righteous are not called to flee in fear but...

The Priesthood of All Believers (Remastered) (The Church)

17 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The priesthood of all believers is not a New Testament novelty but an Old Testament doctrine rooted in God’s covenant declaration that His people ar...

Poverty by Choice

17 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I have before me a treasured book first published in 1875, written by one of America’s great Christian educators. Recently, while lecturing at an Iv...

Titanism

16 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Titanism is the glorification of human effort that seeks to do the impossible, often disguising pride as virtue. Rooted in Greek mythology and revived...

Easy Chair No. 144, April 16, 1987

16 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this broadcast, R.J. Rushdoony, Otto Scott, and R.E. McMaster discuss the moral and religious collapse of the Western world and its profound impact...

Charity Begins at Home

16 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Twice recently friends asked my opinion of glamorous new “charities” their women’s groups had adopted causes I’ll call the Friends of the Whoo...

The Return to Barbarism

15 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Mrs. B___ lives in a lovely home in an elite neighborhood and prides herself on being a “good” liberal parent, insisting her teenagers bring home ...

Justice and Authority

15 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This passage explores the origin and meaning of the word nag, tracing it from its Scandinavian roots meaning “to gnaw, bite, or burrow” to its mod...

When Your Brothers Pick a Fight, Judges 8:1–3

15 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

You've done the hard thing. The Lord has blessed it. And the men who turn up looking for a row aren't your enemies — they're your brothers. Ephraim ...

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

14 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In John 14 our Lord speaks words of deep comfort to troubled disciples by answering their fears with Himself: He is the way to the Father, the truth i...

Irrelevant Preaching

14 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Some years ago, when a farmhouse caught fire in the middle of the night, the family barely escaped, but the tidy housewife paused in the burning livin...

The Family and Religion (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)

14 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This session frames the family as a fundamentally religious institution—not merely sociological or economic—and uses Psalm 127 to argue that true ...

Can One Book Turn Your Life Upside Down? (guest Perry Coughlan)

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Perry Coughlin didn't set out to become a Christian Reconstructionist. He was being trained as a Wesleyan Arminian minister when a single book reorien...

History

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In “History” (Chalcedon Report No. 108), Rushdoony argues that history is not merely a record of past events but the remembered past shaped by fai...

Is Mexicos Problem Americas Problem Too?

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This passage argues that Mexico’s debt crisis in 1982 is not just Mexico’s problem but a global and particularly American one. The United States a...

The Depths of Satan

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Revelation, Christ condemns those in Thyatira who believed that true Christianity required studying “the depths of Satan” (Rev. 2:24). Many in ...

Monergism and Synergism

12 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The debate over monergism vs. synergism concerns who is decisive in salvation. Monergism teaches that salvation is entirely the work of God’s sovere...

The Centrality of the Family (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)

12 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This session argues that the family is God’s central institution, deliberately placed at the heart of human life so that every person—husband, wif...

Monergism and Synergism

12 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The debate over monergism vs. synergism concerns who is decisive in salvation. Monergism teaches that salvation is entirely the work of God’s sovere...

How to Insure Trouble

12 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Rev. T. Robert Ingram tells of a Navy commander in WWII who, during his first battle, issued grand orders “Fire one, fire two” only to erupt in pa...

Solitude

11 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A famous actress of the 1930s was known for her motto, “I want to be alone,” and she remained an unhappy woman to the end, proving that neither cr...

God's Educational Process

10 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

God’s education of His people is never an easy or harmless process, because true education reshapes the whole person and therefore involves pain, te...

A Letter to a Sleepy Friend

10 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Some people are simply too spiritually sleepy to hear anything, and writing to them is like talking to a drowsy friend who pretends to listen but is n...

Circumcision and Baptism (Remastered) (The Church)

10 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Baptism succeeds circumcision as the covenant sign, preserving the same covenantal meaning while unfolding it in Christ: both testify that fallen huma...

Easy Chair No. 143, April 10, 1987

09 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

R.J. Rushdoony reviews books illustrating moral, cultural, and societal trends. He highlights John Morgan’s Prince of Crime on Catholic dominance in...

The Unwashed Generation

09 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We all know the frustration of speaking to someone who refuses to hear, like a young man I recently met who raged against his capable, long-suffering ...

The Mystery Religions

09 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Claims that Christianity borrowed from ancient mystery religions rest on superficial similarities and miss the real contrast. The mysteries offered se...

Loss of the Past

08 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In “Loss of the Past” (Chalcedon Report No. 320), Rushdoony argues that modern society’s deliberate forgetting and moralizing distortion of hist...

The Love of a Lie

08 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A country pastor once caught his dozing congregation’s full attention by telling an obvious lie about a sow that gave birth to green pigs, then rebu...

Lead From the Front: How to Topple Empires, Judges 7:8–25

08 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Gideon stands above 135,000 warriors with 300 men and no visible swords. The Lord sends him down to overhear an enemy dream — a barley loaf tumbling...

Slander

07 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

My daughter once called home distressed because a classmate claimed George Washington had fathered fourteen illegitimate children and died of venereal...

An Introduction to the Christian Family (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)

07 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This opening to a study on the biblical doctrine of the family argues that modern society is fundamentally at war with the family because it has repla...

The Meaning of Purity

07 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Biblical purity is not the untouched innocence we commonly associate with the English word, but a condition produced through testing, refining, and se...

Religious Hypochondriacs

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Just as some people obsess over their physical health, religious hypochondriacs obsess over their spiritual health constantly taking their “spiritua...

Anti-Christianity on the Rise

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In a 1993 Chalcedon Report, R.J. Rushdoony warned of rising anti-Christian hostility in America, tracing it to Supreme Court decisions eroding Biblica...

Who Gets the Benefits These Days?

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This passage examines how well-intentioned social and labor programs can be exploited, often favoring the wrong parties. The “Burglar Cops of Hollyw...

Hypocrites

05 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The word hypocrite comes from the Greek term for an actor one who wore a mask and played a part and the meaning has not changed: a hypocrite pretends ...

Kenoticism: the “Gospel” of Defeat

05 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Kenoticism turns Christianity into a religion of surrender, teaching that holiness means self-abasement, passivity, and acceptance of defeat. Borrowed...

Necessity for Christian Education (Critique of Modern Education) (Remastered)

05 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This passage argues that modern Christianity has drifted into practical polytheism, affirming Christ with words while denying His Lordship in politics...

Why Do So Many Fall for Cults?

05 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

L. Ron Hubbard reportedly told a science fiction conference that the surest way to make a million dollars was to start a religion. In 1954, he did exa...

Is Chastity Obselete

04 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Articles claiming we are in a “new sexual revolution” forget a simple truth: none of this is new. Every generation of sinners treats immorality as...

The Christian Passover (Remastered). (The Church)

03 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Lord’s Supper is the Christian Passover, deliberately instituted within the Jewish Passover to proclaim the continuity of God’s covenant and t...

Of Repentance Unto Life

03 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Repentance is not mere sorrow for sin or regret over its consequences, but a God-wrought grace that begins with hating sin itself, involves a decisive...

Fence Breakers

03 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Many people today cry out for justice when they ought to plead for mercy. They focus on wrongs done to them while ignoring the wrongs done by them. As...

Kenosis: The-Great Modern Heresy

02 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Kenosis falsely teaches that Christ emptied Himself of divine power and that true Christianity means self-abasement, passivity, and surrender to evil....

Envy

02 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A rookie basketball player earning $104,000 a year is praised, and entertainers making hundreds of thousands are admired. Yet let a small farmer earn ...

Easy Chair No. 142, March 18, 1987

02 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott discuss Christian Reconstruction as the biblical mandate to establish God’s justice and righteousness in every sphere ...

Dream of Total Justice

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This Chalcedon Report argues that the humanistic dream of total justice is one of history’s most destructive illusions, because it seeks to create h...

A Test of Man

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Proverbs 27:21 teaches that “a man is tested by what he praises.” One man recently praised hippies as society’s most intelligent class, universi...

Andrea G. Schwartz, Charles H. Roberts, Mark Rushdoony, Special Guest

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The modern church has softened the word "witness" into something polite and passive — but in Scripture, a witness was the one who cast the first sto...

Moral Standards

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Almost daily someone repeats the claim that abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, and similar sins are “perfectly all right,” and that Christians h...

Saving Faith

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Saving faith is not a vague optimism or a generalized religious spirit, but true and specific faith in the triune God as He has revealed Himself in Je...

Intellectual Schizophrenia – Q&A (Critique of Modern Education) - Q&A (Remastered)

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Public education is suffering from intellectual schizophrenia—torn between despair over humanity’s survival and blind confidence that centralized ...

One Action To Transform Your Nation

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

You look around and despair. The hordes who hate your country. The influencers buckling under pressure. Pastors going soft. The whole nation drifting....

Doing Nothing

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In “Doing Nothing” (Chalcedon Report No. 159), Rushdoony argues that Western society’s failure to resist tyranny is not intellectual confusion b...

Are Technicalities Destroying Justice?

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This passage critiques the modern legal system’s focus on technicalities over substantive justice. Minor procedural errors, once considered irreleva...

Tolerance and Intolerance

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A friend was once troubled when accused of “intolerance” for opposing sexual sins until he realized that his accuser was fiercely intolerant as we...

The Influence of Socialism in American Education (Critique of Modern Education) (Remastered)

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This message argues that socialism in education can’t be defeated by chasing subversives—it must be confronted at its root. The real engine, it cl...

Tolerance

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When I moved into a large city, every street noise kept me awake, but within a year I heard none of them; when I later moved to the mountains, the coy...

The Heresy of Theosis

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Theosis teaches that salvation is deification that man becomes god. Rooted in Greek and Neoplatonic thought rather than Scripture, it blurs the Creato...

Salvation by Nagging

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

My barber told me of his first trip back to Italy after becoming an American citizen: when a state official tried to order him around as though he wer...

Barking

26 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A Russian proverb says, “A dog is wiser than a woman: he won’t bark at his master,” a humorous reminder that even a dog knows not to attack the ...

What is Faith?

26 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Faith is not a vague sincerity, a “proper spirit,” or a good attitude divorced from truth, but the means by which God applies to us the saving wor...

Office of Elder in the Church (The Church)

26 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This section contends that the biblical office of elder has been hollowed out reduced from an active, pastoral arm of Christ’s kingship into a large...

God says you DON'T NEED a good economy to prosper

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Your generation can't afford a house. Your peers can't keep a wife. The dew of prosperity seems to fall on every generation but yours. In Judges 6, Gi...

Easy Chair No. 141, March 16, 1987 - The Meaning of History

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott discuss history, its meaning, and how it is recorded, emphasizing that true history reflects God’s hand, not merely hu...

False Cures

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It is possible to cure a headache by blowing out your brains, but no sane man would recommend such a remedy; likewise, a salve may soothe the pain of ...

The Great Fear and the Great Faith

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Great Fear marks the collapse of societies when faith dies. As seen in the French Revolution and repeated throughout history, fear begins in the h...

The Missing Piece in Christian Education

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the Chalcedon team explores the missing piece in Christian education. While many Christians have rightly rejected state education and...

Rethinking Theology - The Chalcedon Podcast - Ep. 64

25 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Rethinking Theology challenges the idea that theology belongs only to scholars, seminaries, or the “spiritual” side of life. In this episode, Chal...

The Theological Meaning of Property

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Chalcedon Podcast #65, Andrea Schwartz, Mark Rushdoony, and Martin Selbrede discuss the biblical doctrine of property as a foundational principle o...

Crusading

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This Chalcedon Report warns that the crusading mentality, whether religious, political, or ideological, is marked by self-righteousness, hypocrisy, an...

Faith in Injustice

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Modern man has become an injustice collector, eagerly tallying every wrong in the world in order to justify himself. To such people, life is a rigged ...

What Does the Bible Say About Diplomacy?

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Out of the Question, Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts examine diplomacy from a biblical perspective, arguing that true pe...

Is Disobedience the Source of All Social Ills?

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Out of the Question, Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts argue that many of society’s deepest problems are rooted in disob...

Contagion

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Scripture teaches that while sickness and evil are contagious, holiness is not Haggai’s warning makes clear that impurity spreads easily, but righte...

Messianic Character of American Education (Critique of Modern Education) - Q&A (Remastered)

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This talk pulls no punches: what’s increasingly on trial in America isn’t just Christians, schools, or families—it’s the Bible itself, especia...

Brands

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on the imagery of cattle roundup and branding, this meditation reminds us that every person bears a visible mark of ownership, whether they ac...

Can Crime Stopping Be Dangerous?

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This passage warns against the dangers of predictive crime prevention. Richard Conniff’s article in Science Digest highlights research aimed at iden...

Children’s Crusade

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In “Children’s Crusade” (Chalcedon Report No. 152), Rushdoony argues that the belief in the natural innocence and saving power of children is a ...

How to Pollute Other People

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A man who spends years on a project only to watch another stumble onto the solution can easily become bitter but Scripture warns that bitterness is fa...

A Death Sentence for Obeying God?

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Gideon obeyed the explicit command of God — he tore down the altar of Baal, chopped down the Asherah pole, and offered a burnt sacrifice to the Lord...

The Cartesian Heresy

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Quietism turned Christianity into passive inward spirituality, separating heart from mind and prayer from action. It treated engagement with doctrine,...

The Place of Biblical Law in Society (Remastered)

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Place of Biblical Law in Society (Crime and Punishment) https://cr101radio.com/podcast/the-place-of-biblical-law-in-society-crime-and-punishment ...

The Right to Sin

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There is no such thing as a right to sin, yet many people live as though their good works entitle them to an occasional moral holiday. A church office...

Quietism

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Quietism turned Christianity into passive inward spirituality, separating heart from mind and prayer from action. It treated engagement with doctrine,...

Excuses

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Scripture makes unmistakably clear that God accepts no excuses. In Genesis 3:9–19, Adam’s and Eve’s attempts to shift blame only deepen their gu...

Entering Life

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Proverbs 30:20 gives a penetrating insight into sin: “Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have do...